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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen3-235B-A22B

Side-by-side API economics and benchmarks. Per-1M input and output rates, context window, and verified metrics.

Tale of the tape

Head-to-head specs pulled from each model profile.

Metric Claude Opus 4.8 Qwen3-235B-A22B
Input cost / 1M $5.00 $0.70
Output cost / 1M $25.00 $2.80
Context window 1,000,000 tokens 32,768 tokens
MMLU score

Cost verdict

Enter monthly input and output volumes to see total cost savings.

Claude Opus 4.8

Input: 1M × $5.00 = $5.00
Output: 1M × $25.00 = $25.00
Total
$30.00

Qwen3-235B-A22B

Input: 1M × $0.70 = $0.70
Output: 1M × $2.80 = $2.80
Total
$3.50

Total cost savings

$26.50

Qwen3-235B-A22B saves $26.50 per month vs the other model at this volume.

Model routing savings

Uses this page's verified rates. Claude Opus 4.8 is the premium route (higher combined per-1M cost); Qwen3-235B-A22B handles routine traffic.

Premium model

Claude Opus 4.8

$5.00 in · $25.00 out / 1M

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Economical model

Qwen3-235B-A22B

$0.70 in · $2.80 out / 1M

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All premium

Claude Opus 4.8

$1,500.00

100% of input and output on the premium route

Routed stack

80%Qwen3-235B-A22B

Claude Opus 4.8

$440.00

Routine slice
$140.00
Premium slice
$300.00

Monthly savings

$1,060.00

70.7% lower

Rates pulled from this page's model database entries (claude-opus-4-8, qwen3-235b-a22b) — same per-1M input/output figures as Tale of the tape. Production routing needs quality gates and monitoring.

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